this i have learned. my own state michigan is debating the same issue; in some ways we are as conservative or more on some issues; gun nuts also dominate. there are huge divisions in tx as in mich over liberal/conservative issues. they tip over to republican; oklahoma is much more republican and conservative. basically, this is a divided country, and every state is marked by the division that is liberal-conservative. much that is conservative now i dislike or hate; much that is liberal, they too hate. we are divided into bitter camps on many many issues, from abortion to women's rights to gender constructions to gay rights to immigrants to guns to war. little unites us. it makes it difficult. i'd say the emotions of dislike are accompanied by scorn, resentment, anger, and at times become deadly.
ken
On 2/26/16 11:51 PM, Samuel Zalanga wrote:
Exactly where this ship of modernity or advanced modernity is taking us to, I do not know. It was fascinating when I taught a course on "peoples and cultures of the United States" to note that Texas is another one country. They say, "do not mess with Texas" -- Whatever that means.
This kind of news item makes me feel depressed frankly. I sometimes wonder whether one should return to what one social theorist described as "the tranquil nausea of bucolic life." The problem is, is such a life even possible now to a body that has already being corrupted, as Nietzsche would ask.
Yet, moving forward, one encounters infinity of meanings and possibilities which make life meaningless even though full of things. This is what is called advanced modernity or civilization, or at least it is one example. So where are we heading to? Maybe the original idea of modernity was oversold to people especially when one remembers Rostow's fifth stage of development: "The Age of High Mass Consumption." This is the ultimate end presumably of this secular eschatological journey called modernity.
Samuel--
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
Professor Falola should come home for a native bulletproof preparation, otherwise known as "odeshi".
CAO.
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